Virtela, the global network solutions company, has introduced Secure Video Extranet
, a service that enables businesses to privately connect to video endpoints outside of their corporate perimeter to support telepresence and other videoconferencing applications with partners worldwide.
Virtela's Secure Video Extranet service overcomes the challenges typically associated with videoconferencing between partner communities, where endpoints often reside on different carriers and Internet peering to connect them adds jitter
, latency and packet loss that can severely impact video quality.
With this service, Virtela also resolves the network quality and security concerns associated with partners on different carriers' networks needing to visually connect, enhancing their overall experience while creating productivity increases inherent to video communications.
"Virtela has a long history of providing partner extranet services and we recognized the need for companies to connect with business partners through videoconferencing as a natural offshoot of our existing services," said John Powell, Virtela's vice president of global channels.
"Our network was engineered from the start to handle demanding applications and deliver packets in sequence, which further optimizes video communications and enables us to provide stringent end-to-end performance guarantees specific to video traffic,” explained Powell.
Virtela Communications delivers network and security solutions to many of the world's largest and fastest-growing multinational companies.
Currently serving customers across six continents, Virtela's network reach spans more than 190 countries.
Virtela's unique Global Service Fabric offers the foundation for delivering critical applications via the company's acclaimed service methodology, with a services suite that includes MPLS- and IP-based virtual private networks (VPNs), security services, remote monitoring and management of WAN/LAN
infrastructure, and converged services (data, video, voice).
Virtela optimizes video calls between partners via a multi-carrier network that exchanges video traffic between locations while bypassing public and private peering points and their inherent performance issues.
Virtela's Global Service Fabric (GSF) network is carrier- and vendor-neutral, allowing customers to take advantage of their existing infrastructure and access while implementing new solutions that improve cost savings and performance.
The GSF employs Regional Policy Centers (RPCs) around the world that aggregate and integrate hundreds of networks, leveraging private connectivity between carriers.
This architecture is optimal for corporate extranets, ensuring that businesses on disparate networks can connect via secure, high quality connection points critical to support bandwidth-intensive applications such as High Definition (HD) videoconferencing and telepresence solutions.
Companies in merger and acquisition mode that need to assimilate new locations can also leverage Virtela's Secure Video Extranet service to enhance their business processes.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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